COMPLIANT and RIGID MECHANISMS RESEARCH
Hacettepe University
Research Area
Our research area is the analysis and design of rigid and compliant mechanisms. However, we especially focused on the design of compliant mechanisms. We can analyze the compliant mechanisms by FEA and with by building a test setup in our laboratory.
Journal Publications (under SCI coverage):
Volkan Parlaktaş, "Spatial Compliant Constant-Force Mechanism", Mechanism and Machine Theory, Underreview
Engin Tanık, Volkan Parlaktaş, ”Compliant cardan universal joint”, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, To appear
Volkan Parlaktaş, Engin Tanık, ”Compliant spatial slider-crank (RSSP) mechanism”, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 46 (2011) 1707–1718
Engin Tanık, ”Transmission angle in compliant slider-crank mechanism”, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 46 (2011) 1623–1632
Engin Tanık, Volkan Parlaktaş, “A new type of compliant spatial four-bar (RSSR) mechanism”, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 46(2011) 593–606
Engin Tanık, Eres Söylemez, “Analysis and design of a compliant variable stroke mechanism”, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 45 (2010) 1385–1394
Volkan Parlaktaş, Eres Söylemez, Engin Tanık, “On the synthesis of a geared four-bar mechanism”, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 45 (2010) 1142–1152
Selected Refereed Conference Proceedings:
Engin Tanık, Eres Söylemez, "Variable Structure Mechanisms Design", The Ninth IFToMM International Symposium on Theory of Machines and Mechanisms, Bucharest, Romania, September 1-4, 2005
Eres Söylemez, Volkan Parlaktaş, "Use of Spatial Four-Bar Mechanism for the Synthesis of Mechanisms with Large Dwell", Proceedings IFToMM on 11th Congress in Mechanisms and Machine Science, April 2004, Tianjin (China), pp.1103-1008.
Videos of some of our studies:
Compliant Universal Joint
Compliant SpatialSlider-Crank (RSSP) Mechanism
Compliant Spatial Four-Bar (RSSR) Mechanism
A two degrees of freedom underactuated mechanism
Geared four-bar mechanism
A large dwell cascade four-bar mechanisms